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Creative Commons License Upheld by Dutch Court

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-cc-go-cc-go dept.

musicon writes "As seen on Groklaw, a recent court decision upheld the the Creative Commons license in the Netherlands: 'The Creative Commons licenses are quite new, so there has been very little in the way of case law so far, so this is a significant development. The ruling rejected a 'the license wasn't clear' defense, particularly for sophisticated entities, and it upheld the license as binding without the licensee having to agree or even to have knowledge of the terms of the license.' You can read successful plaintiff Adam Curry's blog on the ruling too."

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  1. Hmm... by DarkIye · · Score: 2, Funny
    I don't know why, but it seems every link in this article is covered by the Creative Commons licence!

    Maybe it's something to do with this new Greasemonkey script I'm running...

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    To prevent this day from getting worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD TH
  2. Comments on TFA by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gotta love the reply someone left to TFA:

    By analogy, most people don't charge when they have sex.

    They don't?!? Why didn't anyone tell me?

    Yet this should not be seen as evidence that the market value of sex is zero and hence there is no damage in cases of rape.

    True, but I think it is safe to say that the victim has not directly suffered loss of income unless they were a hooker (obviously physical, psychological and indirect damage notwithstanding).

    Bad analogies, it seems, are not exclusive to /.